| tastyshovelware said: As much as I love nintendo (former nes, snes, and n64 owner), I worry that one day the n64/gc effect will kick in and people will realize that all they're getting are nintendo products and they'll jump ship in favor of the ps3/360. I don't want to live off just nintendo titles for the wii's life span. And let's say there was a small title, zack and wiki caliber, scheduled to release in march. No one would buy it cause the media and gamer talk would all focus on brawl. z/w is a great game. Is it brawl great? well maybe, maybe not, but brawl would crush it all the same. I would hate to find that a real underdog title out of the bunch was lost in the shuffle with wii around. And, you know what, I may be wrong, the games may all turn out to be crap. But I think the move to push brawl....... just a TINY bit may hurt nintendo a tiny bit, but it would help the wii and 3rd party faith in it long term. I know it's a give and take relationship. I know 3rd party developers need to put in more of an effort. And I know brawl looks great. The fact is, no matter what was going up against brawl, even if it was a great port of GTA4, brawl would still beat it out. that's how powerful the game is. |
1)The chances of that ahppening now are slim. In the last two generations, developers jumped ship as those two systems sold better. Now the Wii sells the most. The senario won't play out the same way.
2)Your not seeing it. Lets say there is amazing game X in March. How much would it sell without Brawl. We'll say 20k. Now, withy Brawl, it sells 10k. Oh no. Nintendo delays Brawl, again, and loses out on the fans who were on the fence.
3)No, it would hurt Nintendo more. Brawl will get more people on the Wii, and be better for them in general. With Brawl, Nintendo gets about 80% of the profits. With the third party gamwes, about 10-20. Nintendo would not make the money back losing sales for Brawl if they let these third party games do a smidge bit better.
The thing is, your not looking into the real world. Your theory makes sence, but it is far from paracitcal. These third party games lacked both the hype or the general appeal. Heck, most of them are ports. Your asking Nintendo to delay their biggest game in a long time, which will kick start the Wii and really help put the system in more households, to help these ports and small games get a little more sales. The truth is that stratigy will, indeed, hurt Nintendo more then help it. It will delay a good situation for a lesser one. Those games would not have gone very far Brawl or not. If they would have gone far, then they could compete with Brawl, and still get their sales. Brawl will hurt sales, but so do games like Halo 3, FF games, and GTAs. The other developers need to take heed. Why should Nintendo take a sacrifice for other games just for the sake of helping them. It's buisness. Microsoft would not do the same with a Halo title.
4)case in point, developers need to plan for this, not Nintendo. These developers need Nintendo. If Nintendo doesn't make the games, the system drowns. This is how it's functioned. The third parties aren't making anything good to keep the system aflot, so if they want to sell anything, they need Nintendo. As I said, Nintendo should not yeild to them for a greater loss, when they should yeild to Nintendo for a minor loss.
